Photos: 2015 Presidential Election Ballot Papers Found In London

 

Ballots meant for the Nigerian presidential
election were found yesterday at the premises of
a local printer in the Essex area of London.
Our sources said the sensitive election materials,
which ought to have arrived in Nigeria earlier in
the week, were unsecured at the premises of
Panther Printing Services in London.

SaharaReporters was able to confirm that a
Nigerian firm named Cemoz International
Limited had been contracted to print some ballot
papers for the 2015 presidential elections.
A spokesman for the Independent National
Electoral Commission, Kayode Idowu, confirmed
to SaharaReporters that Cemoz International
Limited was one of the firms awarded the
contract to print ballot papers.


It appears that, upon getting the contract,
Cemoz went shopping for printers in London to
print the ballot papers and then contracted these
other printers to serially number the ballot
papers. Although the ballot papers for the
presidential elections for several southwest
states were seen lying around the premises of
the printing company in Essex, a staff at the
company, speaking to a correspondent of
SaharaReporters, said the firm only had the
contract to print some of the ballot papers for
Jigawa State. Thinking that our correspondent
worked for Cemoz, the representative of the
Essex-based company asked if we could give
them more jobs, adding that their company had
mastered how to print ballot papers.

SaharaReporters later obtained a bill of lading
showing that Cemoz planned to ship the ballot
papers to Nigeria a few hours before February
14th, the day initially sect aside for the
presidential election. INEC subsequently
postponed the election for six weeks.